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you may need to downgrade your kernel to 4.4 but wait for JeremyB's response.
and JeremyB a question how do you know that it's a 8812 chipset? Just curious since I would like to know how to determine this - Thanks.

you may need to downgrade your kernel to 4.4 but wait for JeremyB's response.
and JeremyB a question how do you know that it's a 8812 chipset? Just curious since I would like to know how to determine this - Thanks.

Jeremy and kc1di: I used Jeremy's method and I'm happy to say that I'm posting this using WIFI on my computer! Thank you so much for the help!

If anyone else stumbles upon this in the future, note that I also needed to pull and and plug back in my usb wifi adapter after restarting my computer. Not sure if it's necessary or if it would have eventually connected otherwise.